Collar-button



S. BUTTERWORTHlv COLLAR BUTTON.

APPLICATION FILED AUGAO, 1920.

Patented Apr. 12, 1921.

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SAMUEL BUTTEBWORTH, OF NEWTON, 'MASSACHUSETTS COLLAR-BUTTON.

Specification of Letters Eatent.

Patented Apr. 12, 1921.

Application filed. August 30, 1920. Serial No. 406,975.

T 0 all w hom t may concern:

Be it known that l, SAMUEL BUTTER- woRTH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newton, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Collar- Buttons, of which the following is a speciication.

This invention relates to collar but-tons for use at the back portion of a shirt neck band, to. engage the back button-hole in the neck band and the back button-hole of a collar.

The chief object of the invention is to provide a button adapted to have a minin mum outward projection from the neckband, and to permit the flap of a turn-down collar to stand close to the collar neck-band.

Another object is to provide a button composed wholly of wire, and adapted to permit a neck-tie to slip freely between the neck-band and flap of a collar.

The invention is embodied in the improved button hereinafter described and claimed.

Of the accompanying drawings forming a part of this speeification,-

Figure 1 is a side view of the back portion of a shirt neck-band showing my improved button partially engaged therewith.

Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. 1, showing the button engaged with the neck-band, but not in its operative position.

Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2, showing the button inverted from the position shown by Fig. 2, and in position to engage the neck-band of a collar.

Fig. 4 is a section on line 4-4 of Fig. 8.

Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 3, showing a portion of a collar engaged with the head of the button, the fiap portion of the collar being broken away.

Fig. 6 isa section on line 6 6 of Fig. 5, the flap portion of the collar being unbroken.

Figs. 7 and 8 are respectively, a side view and an edge view of the button.

Figs. 9 and 10 are respectively sections on lines 9 9 and 10-10 of Fig. 1, the button being omitted.

lThe same reference characters indicate the same parts in all of the figures.

In the drawings, 12 represents the outer ply and 13 the inner ply of a shirt neckband, said plies being partially separated at the rear portion of the neck-band to form the usual pocket 14 for the reception of a collar button foot, the outer ply 12 being provided with the usual button-hole 15, which receives the shank or neck of a collar button.

My improved button is composed of a length of resilient wire having free ends and bent to form an elongated loop-shaped foot 16, formed to stand as shown by Fig. 4, between'the plies 12 and 18, above the button-hole 15.

The wire is further bent to form the portions 17, 17, of a two-part neck, which is narrower than the length of the foot 1G and in the same plane therewith. The wire is also bent to form the two parts 18 of a compressible head, the parts 18 being the free ends of the wire, and formed to project downwardly from the neck when the foot and neck are in their operative positions, as shown by Fig. 4.

The head portions 18 diverge from the neck to the central portion of the head, and converge from said central portion to the outer or lower extremity of the head, so that the outer portion of the head is wedgeshaped, and adapted to be compressed by contact with the ends of a button-hole, the neck being narrower than the central portion of the head.

The button may be engaged with the ply 12 of the neck-band by, first, inserting one of the head portions 18 and a part of the other head portion in the button-hole 15, as shown by Fig. 1, then swinging the button to the position shown by Fig. 2, the head projecting upward, and finally inverting the button so that the head projects downward, as shown by Figs. 8 and 4. The foot 1G now stands between the neck-band plies 12 and 13, the neck passes through the button-hole 15 and the head projects downwardly from the button-hole and is slightly offset from the neck-band, the head-forming portions 18 being preferably curved from the plane of the foot and neck, as indicated by Figs. 4, 6 and 8. The head is now in position to engage the back buttonhole 20 in the neck-band 21 of a turneddown collar, the flap of which is shown at 22.

The collar button-hole 2O is placed on the lower end of the head and the collar is moved upwardly until the button -head passes through the button-hole 20, the ends of the button-hole first compressing the head, as indicated by dotted lines in F ig. 7, and then permitting the head to expand, so that its central portion is wider than the length oi' the button-hole 20, as shown by Fig. 5.

It will be seen that the button when in its operative position, does not form an objectionable protuberance at the outer side ot the shirt and collar neclbbands, and that the head is formed to permit a neck-tie to slip freely endwise between it and the Hap portion 22 of the collar.

I claim:

A back collar -bntton composed of a length oi' resilient wire having free ends, and bent to form an elongated loop-shaped toot formed to stand between the plies ot" the button foot-receiving pocket of a shirt neckeband, above a button-hole in one of said plies, a two-part neck, narrower than the length of the foot and in the same plane therewith, the neck Vbeing formed to enter said button-hole, and a two-part compressible head formed from the iiree ends of the wire and formed to project downwardly from the neck when the foot and neck are in their operative positions, said ends diverging from the neck to the central portion of the heath-and converging from said central portion to the outer extremity of the head, so that the outer portion of the head is wedge-shaped, and adapted to be compressed by contact with the ends of a button-hole, the neck being` narrower than the central portion of the head.

In testimony whereof I have afixed my signature.

SAMUEL BUTTERVORTH. 

